Name: Hope Wolf | Sussex Modernism
Start: 2025-10-25T15:45:00+01:00
Location: The Beacon, Wantage

‘Sussex Modernism’ by Hope Wolf is a comprehensive exploration of how artists and writers harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of Sussex to reimagine art and life. The book covers over one hundred years of modernist movements, featuring well-known figures such as Virginia Woolf, Jacob Epstein, David Jones, Gluck, Edward Burra, and Lee Miller, as well as countercultural artists of the 1960s–1980s and regional women artists. The talk intertwines literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, textiles, music, and domestic decoration, revealing how these artists promoted psychic and social change through their environments.
Hope Wolf is an academic and author specialising in modern and contemporary art, literature, and culture. She is a Reader in Literature and Visual Culture and co-director of the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex.